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Apple's New Notebooks: What We Should Expect
Tomorrow sees the unveiling of Apples new notebooks. What can we expect? Mac Book under a grand, around $800.

The official invitation, sent out just last Thursday, doesnt offer much. We get the slogan, The spotlight turns to notebooks and a picture of a notebook, probably metal, partially illuminated by you guessed it a spotlight.

Reading the hieroglyphs of Apples promo material doesnt bring much. Could the spotlight reference have something to do with the Macs Spotlight search function? Probably not.

Apples famous lock-down on product information has become less secure of late. Almost the only part of the iPod Lets Rock event that wasnt leaked beforehand was the shake-to-shuffle feature on the new Nano. This launch is shaping up to be just the same: Several Chinese forums have posted pretty convincing pictures of the case designs. Both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro will be aluminum. The aluminum MacBook has been rumored since forever, and if we take the leaked shots as real, Apple is finally going all-metal in its Mac lineup.

We can also be pretty certain that the MacBook Pro will gain the chiclet-style keyboard of the Air and the stock MacBook, most likely in backlit black. Ditto the magnetic latch which holds the MacBook Pro closed that little button is so 2001. The other advantage the current MacBook has over the MBP is the easy-to-swap hard drive. Along with the RAM, the HDD is a simple five-minute slot-in replacement. Expect to see this in the Pro.

Internally we can expect some more changes. Mac Cultist Leander Kahney hopes for 4GB RAM as standard in the MBP, and two in the MacBook. He also lists integrated NVIDIA graphics in the MacBook, something that rumor site Apple Insider corroborates, claiming to have confirmed the inclusion of NVIDIAs MCP79. While this still shares the system memory, it is apparently faster and probably more important for Apple smaller than the Intel GMA950 which is currently used.

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